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Chapter 10
World War I and Beyond
Term | Definition |
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1. militarism | glorification of the military |
2. Western Front | battle front between the Allies and the Central powers in Europe during World War I |
3. casualty | soldiers killed, wounded, and missing |
4. contraband | supplies captured from an enemy during wartime |
5. U-boat | German submarine |
6. Lusitania | British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat during World War I |
7. Zimmerman note | a telegram written by German Foreign Minister Zimmerman proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States during World War I |
8. Selective Service Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service |
9. Committee on Public Information (CPI) | government agency created during World War I to encourage Americans to support the war |
10. conscientious objector | person whose morals or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars |
11. Espionage Act | act passed by Congress in 1917 enacting severe penatlies for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activties |
12. Great Migration | movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the industrial North |
13. convoy | group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by war ships |
14. Fourteen Points | list of terms for resolving World War I and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson |
15. self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
16. League of Nations | world organizations established after World War I to promote peaceful cooperation between countries |
17. reparations | payment for war damages |
18. "irreconilables" | isolationist senators who opposed any treaty ending World War I that had a League of Nations folded into it |
19. "reservationists" | a group of Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles to end WWI, unless specific changes were included |
20. influenza | flu virus |
21. inflation | rising prices |
22. Red Scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
23. Palmer Raids | the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists |
24. creditor nation | country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries |
25. Alsace-Lorraine | the territory France lost during the conflict in 1971, that they are now trying to gain back |
26. George Creel | director of the CPI |